Barry Cooks, MS '97 (computer and information science), was appointed chief technology officer at DigitalOcean, a cloud computing company based in New York City.

Corey Bray, BS '98 (exercise and movement science), was named vice president and director of athletics at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.

Gene Souza, BA '99 (psychology), has been appointed district manager for the Klamath Irrigation District.

AMELIE BRAZELTON AUST, BA '06 (Clark Honors College, English), has been named executive vice chair of her family-owned Fall Creek Farm and Nursery, an international blueberry breeding and nursery company based in Lowell.

Zach Zollinger, BS '08 (economics), has joined the Boise office of Holland and Hart as an associate in the commercial litigation group.

Amy Glaspey, BS '93 (communication disorders and sciences), MS '95 (special education: early intervention; communication disorders and sciences), helped create the Glaspey Dynamic Assessment of Phonology, an assessment of speech sound production that will help clinicians better measure the help a child needs to say speech sounds and patterns.

Monica Jones, BArch '86 (architecture), has been promoted to associate at LRS Architects in Portland.

William Fairey, BS '87 (biology), was appointed chief commercial officer and executive vice president of MyoKardia, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in San Francisco.

Carolyn Robinson, BA '84 (French), is now with UK-based Pinewood Group as vice president of production management for Pinewood Atlanta Studios, a full-service film and entertainment studio complex that was used for Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and others.

Ian Gelbrich, BArch '98 (architecture), has been promoted to partner at FFA Architecture and Interiors in Portland.

Linda Williams Favero, BA '89 (speech: rhetoric and communication), joined Coraggio Group, a strategy and organizational change consulting firm in Portland.

Alexandra Hilsher, JD '11, has become a partner at Eugene law firm Hershner Hunter.

Walt Hull, BS '59 (education), traveled to Washington, DC, last September with the Honor Flight Network, a nonprofit organization that honors veterans.

Jake Weber has been elevated to Principal at Portland, OR architecture firm Giulietti / Schouten AIA Architects. Jake has been with the firm since 2013 and has been a significant contributor to the evolution of the architectural practice. He is licensed in Oregon and Colorado.

In 2018 Teresa finished her Reese Teacher Fellowship through George Washington's Mount Vernon, completing research and designing lessons around the relationship of George Washington and his neighbor, George Mason. She was named the Educator of the Year by Kaiser Permanente in 2017. After 34 years as a teacher at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, she is now serving as a Clinical Supervisor for the College of Education at Concordia University. Her husband Alan (1983) is a principal of the firm Hennebery Eddy Architects in Portland. In November 2018 HEA was honored with the 2018 Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects Northwest and Pacific Region, and was ranked by ARCHITECT magazine among the Top 50 architecture firms in the country.

Larry Go Ducks Newby received two Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2018. One from the Eugene Active 20/30 Club in May and the other from the Oregon Club of Eugene/Springfield in December.

1968 BS Business



1968-1970 Honeywell Minneapolis MN



1970-1977 Gates Rubber Co Denver CO



1977-2002 Freightliner/Daimler Trucks NA Portland OR



2002-present Retired Sunriver OR

Leif Palmer, BA ’ 83 and JD ’87, has been selected as the Regional Counsel of the U.S. EPA’s Region 4 Office of Regional Counsel located in Atlanta, Georgia. Leif, a member of the Senior Executive Service and a career EPA attorney with 25 years of experience at EPA, heads an office of 70 lawyers and support staff. The Region 4 office is the headquarters for EPA’s southeastern region which includes the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Before being selected as Regional Counsel, Leif, worked as a manager of Superfund attorneys who handled hazardous substance and oil spill Emergency Response matters as well as long-term remediation sites. Leif also headed ORC’s General Law, Criminal Law and Defensive Litigation Branch. Prior to entering management, he was a Senior Attorney handling a wide variety of matters including Everglades Restoration, the Atlantic Station brownfields redevelopment, environmental enforcement and disaster response on the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coasts after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Hurricane Katrina. At the UO, Leif received a certificate in Ocean and Coastal Law. Prior to moving to Atlanta, Leif was an associate attorney for Luvaas, Cobb, Richards and Fraser, in Eugene, Oregon.

Matt Thomas, BA '02 (business administration, Spanish), has propelled his kombucha company, Brew Dr. Kombucha, to one of the largest in the nation, now distributed in all 50 states and Canada. The business recently received a "B Corporation" certification for balancing purpose and profit.

Katie Newton, BFA '14 (photography), exhibited her "Nature's Afterimage" series as part of the Vanishing Nature display at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton.